Activity Type: Media Partnership or Co-Production

In December 2024, Phoenix Television (鳳凰衛視) and the Hong Kong Police Force released Hong Kong Police Story 2024 (香港警察故事2024), a 60-minute documentary co-produced by the two organizations and also broadcast on public broadcaster RTHK. The documentary profiles police officers and cadets across four chapters covering maritime, air, and land units, as well as recruitment, and highlights the force’s use of AI-assisted patrol robots and camera-equipped armored vehicles, according to Phoenix’s program description. Phoenix Television’s largest shareholder is Bauhinia Culture Holdings, a company wholly owned by China’s central government, with China Mobile Hong Kong holding a further stake. The documentary is part of an annual series the two organizations have co-produced since at least 2021, when an edition covered prosecutions under the Hong Kong National Security Law, including the cases of Tong Ying-kit and Jimmy Lai.

Since November 1, 2023, the Hong Kong Police Force’s Public Relations Branch has produced “Offbeat 360” (警聲360), a six-minute video program livestreamed weekly on Wednesday evenings via the force’s Facebook and YouTube accounts, according to a program description on the force’s website. The force distributes the program for rebroadcast to three local television outlets, including public broadcaster RTHK, i-CABLE’s HOY TV, and Phoenix Television (鳳凰衛視), as well as to more than 1,500 physical screens across the territory. Phoenix Television’s largest shareholder is Bauhinia Culture Holdings, a company wholly owned by China’s central government, with China Mobile Hong Kong holding a further stake. The program’s Chinese name references its Wednesday 6 p.m. broadcast slot, six-minute runtime, and stated aim of delivering crime and fraud prevention information and “telling Hong Kong police stories well” from “360 degrees,” according to the police description.

On April 15, 2025, Hong Kong’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security (香港特別行政區維護國家安全委員會) and public broadcaster RTHK marked the opening ceremony of the territory’s tenth National Security Education Day, held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, with a short student drama, according to a government press release. The ceremony was jointly supported by the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government and the Office for Safeguarding National Security, and Xia Baolong (夏寶龍), director of the central government’s Hong Kong and Macao Work Office, delivered keynote remarks by video link. Zheng Yanxiong (鄭雁雄), the Liaison Office’s director, attended in person in his capacity as the committee’s National Security Adviser, a role the Hong Kong National Security Law requires be designated by China’s central government, alongside Chief Executive John Lee (李家超). The drama, titled “Students’ Hearts, Motherland’s Feelings” (學子心祖國情), later aired on RTHK channel 31, according to a program archive on its website.

Beginning November 20, 2022, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) began co-producing a recurring segment series with the Hong Kong Police Force’s Public Relations Branch, airing weekly on TVB’s Jade Channel and other TVB channels, according to the Sing Tao Daily. The series, titled “Police Voice, 120 Seconds” (警聲百二秒), depicts police duties through dramatized “real-life scenarios” meant to introduce the force’s internal workings and break down public stereotypes, according to a program description on the Hong Kong Police Force’s website. Episodes have covered topics including intelligence gathering, counter-infiltration, and counter-terrorism work, presenting the Hong Kong National Security Law as a matter concerning the wellbeing of every resident. TVB’s largest shareholder, Young Lion Holdings, holds a stake tied to mainland Chinese investment firm China Media Capital, whose founder Li Ruigang (黎瑞剛) serves as a TVB board director.

Hong Kong’s National Security Department, a unit of the Hong Kong Police Force, organized NStudio (NStudio同心‧共創‧護國安), a national security-themed marketing proposal competition for primary and secondary school students, with Sing Tao News Corporation Limited listed as a supporting organization alongside the Security Bureau, the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau, and the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers. Students submitted creative campaigns built around the concept of a “holistic national security outlook” (總體國家安全觀), and under the competition’s official rules, copyright of entries was assigned to police, who could then edit, translate, and redistribute the material without further consent or payment. At an awards ceremony, Security Secretary Chris Tang and acting Police Commissioner Simon Kan Kai-yan (簡啟恩) attended to honor winning entries, which included AI-generated game cards and virtual-reality role-play scenarios. Sing Tao’s English-language paper, The Standard, covered a related police-run video contest, NStory, whose judging panel has included film director Lee Lik-chi and legislator Tang Fei. Hong Kong’s National Security Law was imposed directly by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee in 2020. Because the law has a direct impact on the media environment and media freedoms in Hong Kong, and because the territory’s national security enforcement operates in coordination with central government bodies, this database treats media and national security cooperation in Hong Kong as a cross-territory engagement.

On June 26, 2022, Hong Kong’s public broadcaster RTHK premieredBauhinia in Bloom — Cross-Media Musical Performance (紫荊花開—跨媒體音樂匯演), a 70-minute, five-act production commissioned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security to mark 2022’s National Security Education Day. Composed, written, and directed by Mei Kwong-chiu (梅廣釗), chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Composers and a member of the China Musicians Association, a mainland state-affiliated body, the performance involved more than 170 performers, including the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the Hong Kong Dance Company, and several lion dance and martial arts troupes, and used orchestral, choral, and dance elements to narrate what the Committee’s event page described as the “significant historical development of the motherland and Hong Kong over the past century,” promoting the “holistic national security outlook” (總體國家安全觀). That page confirms the program “was produced by RTHK.” National Security Education Day has been co-organized since 2021 by Hong Kong’s national security committee together with the Central People’s Government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong and the central government’s Office for Safeguarding National Security, both directly named as supporting organizers in official announcements of the event.